"With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the ”owner” of the program, that controls the program — and through it, exercises power over its users. [...] In extreme cases (though this extreme has become widespread) proprietary programs are designed to spy on the users, restrict them, censor them, and abuse them. [...] When you use proprietary programs or [Service As A Software Substitute], first of all you do wrong to yourself, because it gives some entity unjust power over you. For your own sake, you should escape. It also wrongs others if you make a promise not to share. It is evil to keep such a promise, and a lesser evil to break it; to be truly upright, you should not make the promise at all." wired/opinion/2013/09/why-free-software-is-more-important-now-than-ever-before/
Posted on: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 09:10:11 +0000
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